Posted by Rik on 06/20/07 17:25

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:03:57 +0200, Spartacus <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote:

> Charles wrote:
>> I'm developing a PHP webmail, it's going to have no graphics at all
>> and I want it to be as fast as possible. I was comparing loading a
>> list of messages using the imap function set of PHP and displaying the
>> same amount of information using a simple SQL query from MySQL. I
>> found MySQL faster, I'm about to store all e-mails automatically into
>> a MySQL database because of that and also because of the search speed/
>> features that I want. But before going further, I'd like to know if
>> you think it's my best bet to go this way and to use the imap set of
>> functions of PHP just to import messages into the MySQL DB during the
>> installation of the application. I would use e-mail piping so that as
>> soon as I get mails, my php script would store them into the DB.
>> Please let me know what you think, and if you have extra tips,
>> perfect!
>> Thanks :)
>>
>
> Just out of curiosity, is this like a clone of Matt Wright's FormMail
> written in Perl but just better?

He's talking about a webmail client, not a simple form to send mails. So
retrieving, storing in folders etc. of incoming messages. And a tiny
little form to send them on the side I presume.


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Rik Wasmus

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